From the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church: Camp meetings held at Coney’s Head on Kinchfoonee Creek in the 1850s inspired the organization of Salem Church and the erection of a building in 1857 on land purchased from Thomas Caldwell. When the new church, Brown’s Station, was built in 1883, Salem’s membership declined and its building was sold to the African Methodist Church. Bronwood Church is of virgin pine cut from the area forests…
I was pastor of the Bronwood & Smithville Methodist Churches in the late 1960’s, my first pastorate. The circa 1903 parsonage, across the street from the Bronwood Ch., had termites. We had the Church inspected, just in case. The inspector came out laughing. “Preacher, you did have some termites once, but they wore themselves out on those 18 inch floor heart-pine floor joists! They only ate about an inch and quit!”